Story Time is Home

The next Story Time event will be on Hastings Pier! It’s happening on Sunday the 13th of September, from 2pm-5pm, and I’d love for you to come.

The theme is HOME. I’d been thinking about what made me feel at home internally, what roles made me feel at home, and also home as a psychological state.

In talking to others, I understood the vastness of the theme. To many, home is their physical space, a place that feels safe. To others home is finding their sexuality or their passion, the comfort of a religion or a chosen family.

The thing that grounds each version is this: home is the place from which you grow.

We have such great people to explore home with on the 13th. Stories from Lily Kim (presenter, activist, mermaid), Zo Daniels (the force behind All in One Education and the founder of Collective Action for Black Matters) and Rosanna Leal (founder of the Refugee Buddy Project).

We also have music from Emma and Tain of Lemur Beats, and an interactive art installation in collaboration with my favorite gallery, Stella Dore. 

This event is free and open to everyone (although the content is not aimed at children). Please spread the word and bring your friends and family.  If you can’t make it, you can watch online on the brilliant Isolation Station. 

I hope to see lots of you there, in what I hope will be a love filled event full of stories, dancing, and possibly new friendships.

There will be opportunity an to donate to the Hastings Refugee Buddy project in our raffle. It felt like the right charity to choose under the theme of HOME. Prize details coming soon, here’s a little more about Rossana and the project:

Rossana Leal and her family fled Chile in 1976 when she was nine years old after her father was detained by the Pinochet regime. She always remembers the warm welcome that the family received from the small mining village in Scotland – with a party, bagpipes and toys for the children. This was her inspiration years later when, moved by the plight of Syrians arriving in Europe, she set up the Buddy Scheme in Hastings. Wanting to recreate the welcoming environment she had experienced. With the Refugee Buddy Project, Rossana is enacting her vision of pushing back and transforming the hostile environment for migrants and refugees in the UK.